Entries Tagged as 'holy f#ck!'

Tuesday, February 25th, 2014

Must Watch: “Eye of the Tiger” Played on a Dot Matrix Printer

It’s a 1980s rock power classic that could inspire the dead to rise up and go jog a couple of laps before doing 20mins on the rowing machine—and now, somehow, it’s been reworked on a modified dot matrix printer. Yep, it might sound like insanity but it works, and it works good, so listen up [...]

Monday, February 24th, 2014

What Stephen Hawking Really Said About Black Holes

OK, prepare your brain for science! It was reported recently that Stephen Hawking made the claim that black holes don’t exist—naturally the internet let out a collective “Whaaa?” before everyone jumped on it to denounce the scientist before really understanding what he meant. So, Hank from SciShow is here to clarify some things, namely Hawking [...]

Sunday, February 23rd, 2014

PBS Off Book Explores the New Rules of Robot/Human Society

Robots being integrated into human society on a day-to-day level is often the musings of science-fiction, but as robotics and AI become ever more advanced, we have to consider the ethical implications that arise from having robots as part of our communities and interacting with us. This PBS Off Book episode is an insightful and [...]

Friday, February 21st, 2014

Giant Wind-Up Bots Take Over Buenos Aires

When the technological singularity comes and Skynet goes sentient, if it looks as harmless as this with shuffling, wind-up bots leisurely plodding along then bring it on—this would make the world a much more enjoyable place, you could just park your ass on a bench and watch the world go by like you were in [...]

Friday, February 21st, 2014

Lessons In Ruthlessness From Frank Underwood

If you’re thinking of getting into politics, nothing will put you off like the character of Frank Underwood from House of Cards—the man is as ruthless as they come, bad to the bone, so if you were still keen to enter the world of Washington’s politicians after seeing him in action, then you might want [...]

Friday, February 21st, 2014

Street Fighter Red Tape: Ryu

No doubt you misspent a lot of your youth playing SF2 and screaming at the TV—one of the big take-aways from the game was the stuff the characters said when they unleashed their special moves. If you wanted to reenact the moves with your friends, you just had to shout out, say, hadouken too. But [...]

Wednesday, February 19th, 2014

Kate Upton in Zero Gravity

Anything Sandra Bullock can do, Kate Upton can do better—but she’ll do it in a tiny bikini and she’ll do it for the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, and hopefully she won’t get lost in space, but you can get lost in the majesty of her glorious celestial body in zero gravity, which is important for [...]

Tuesday, February 18th, 2014

So, A Mexican Drug Lord’s House Got Raided. You Won’t Believe What They Found.

If some of you thought Breaking Bad was slightly surreal then it’s time to get a reality check with a related story that broke a while back – a Mexican drug lord’s house was busted and let us just say… everything you would assume about a drug lord’s house is totally true….and then some! [...]

Tuesday, February 18th, 2014

Life as a Truck-Stop Stripper

Two VICE reporters—Natalia Leite and Alexandra Roxo—go undercover in a truck-stop strip joint in Moriarty, New Mexico, where David Lynch has got nothing on the surreal and strange happenings that go on inside. It’s a place that uses the bras of former employees to decorate its walls and is named in The Ultimate Strip [...]

Monday, February 17th, 2014

BADGERFIELD 4: Thomas the Dank Engine

If there was ever a train equivalent of Chuck Norris, this is it, in the video game world anyway—watch in awe as 64 Battlefield Players try to stop it whilst it plows through tank after tank and laughs in the face of military helicopters firing missile after missile, nothing will stop it reaching its destination, [...]

Monday, February 17th, 2014

Race Driver David Hauser’s Insane Hill Climb

Who needs Formula 1 when you have this kind of craziness—so jump onboard with skilled racer David Hauser, who rides a Dallara GP2 as he zooms along at the Course de côte de St. Ursanne at the European Hillclimb Championship in an insane high speed run which is terrifying enough just watching it on the [...]